Microformats

Microformats are a type of semantic HTML that takes data from being machine readable to being machine understandable, allowing Web browsers to associate the data with particular actions.

 

See:

• hCard - for marking up people and organizations in HTML
• hCalendar - for marking up events in HTML
• http://microformats.org/wiki/

Introduction

For background information on microformat detection, please see this series of blog posts by Alex Faaborg:

• Part 0: Introduction
• Part 1: Structured Data Chaos
• Part 2: The Fundamental Types
• Part 3: Introducing Operator
• Part 4: The User Interface of Microformat Detection

User Experience

• Brainstorming page about the user experience of microformat detection, please feel free to contribute any design work, or to comment on these conceptual mockups.

• Information about about the user interface of microformat detection can also be found on the microformats.org wiki

Firefox 3

• Preferences for Microformats

Implementation

Michael Kaply is working on the microformats implementation in Firefox 3. There is some overlap with the content handling work being done by Dan Mosedal, and Alex Faaborg is working on the user interface.

FirefoxOS

See: Gaia/System/Microformats